Turkish Chickpea Stew

Name: Turkish Chickpea Stew
Ingredients: 4 cups Chickpeas, cooked from scratch; 8 cups Filtered water; to taste Stock of choice; 2 tsp or as needed Grape seed oil or pure coconut oil; 2 ea medium Onions, chopped; 3 cloves (or more) Garlic, minced; 1/2 tsp Cayenne pepper; 1 tsp, or to taste Cumin; 1 tsp, or to taste Sea salt (for sautéing onions & garlic); to taste Tempeh, chopped into cubes; 1 pinch Cayenne pepper; to taste Wheat-free tamari; to taste Sea salt (for sautéing tempeh)

January 10, 2007 Other Contributors

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You can serve this stew in a bowl with your favorite bread or put it over basmati rice and enjoy! It gets better as it sits. It goes really well with a quick and easy salad of chopped tomato, cucumber and parsley, tossed in a shaken mix of lemon, olive oil, maple syrup and salt.

Recipe by Yesim Gumus

Ingredients

Chickpeas, cooked from scratch		4 cups
Filtered water		8 cups
Stock of choice		to taste
Grape seed oil or pure coconut oil		2 tsp or as needed
Onions, chopped		2 ea medium
Garlic, minced		3 cloves (or more)
Cayenne pepper		1/2 tsp
Cumin		1 tsp, or to taste
Sea salt (for sautéing onions & garlic)		1 tsp, or to taste
Tempeh, chopped into cubes		to taste
Cayenne pepper		1 pinch
Wheat-free tamari		to taste
Sea salt (for sautéing tempeh)		to taste

Directions

Place chickpeas and water in large pot with stock. You can use veggie water saved from steamed veggies as a stock with 1/4 cup wheat-free tamari or whatever stock is to your liking. Miso also makes a good stock (use about 4 tablespoons, but add it at the end to preserve its integrity).
Sauté onions and garlic in grape seed or coconut oil. Season with cayenne, cumin and sea salt. Sauté until browned and add to chick peas.
In onion pan, sauté small cubes of tempeh in above oils with wheat-free tamari, sea salt and a little cayenne pepper. Add to pot.
Let ingredients mingle, adjust to your taste, and simmer until you can’t stand it anymore!

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